Books: Better Left Unsaid

Jean Harlow, first sex goddess of the talkies, had a life that
epitomized Thomas Hobbes's phrase for the life of the "natural" man:
poor, nasty, brutish and short. Her mother was domineering and obsessed
with sex; her stepfather was a sponging promoter of fake gold mines.
Jean's second husband, Producer Paul Bern, shot himself two months
after the wedding. She could not act, but her platinum hair, husky
voice, and refusal to wear a brassiere were enough to gross millions at
the box office...